Wichita eagle., 1887-08-25


the kneeling figure of a woman, one fair, the
other dark, the fair one wrlngmg her hands
the dark one calmly putting little revolver
into its case. This was the one selected tc
take down and read. 1t turned out to be
an exciting bigamy, and read on until q
neighboring clock warned me that II had
come. rose with feeling of relief, for
knew that the bigamy was going to result In
murder, and what had gone before was har.
rowing enough. Carefully l put out the
lights and stepped into the passage, where
found my candle, but no matches! Creep.
ing back into the library, l fumbled
along the mantelpiece and over the
tables, but no matches Then, with
burglarious feeling, 1 stole along the
passage to the kitchen; the door creaked dis
mally on opening; l entered, and found the
fire carefully raked out, and still no matches
The thought as to how on earth l was to find
my room in the dark became almost unbear-
able; remembered that it was an end room,
but as to which of the maze of passages it was
in, and on which side, my mind was an abso-
lutte blank.
At length / mustered up courage enough to
begin the ascent of the stairs; they groaned
at each step, so l took off my boots. When
got to the top made a long pause to consider.
Before me was long passage which l GER
tainly remembered; from it branched several
small passages, one of which led to my room.
But which of them? Alas, had no idea. A
happy thought struck me, to toss for it; but
again / was thwarted; in the first place /
should probably miss the coin and awaken
somebody with the noise; in the second place,
If did catch it, couldn't zee it. SO that
was no use.
Desperation came to the rescue. and firmly
made UP my mind to walk up the middle pas
sage. did SO, and felt the two end doors with
my finger tips in vain; who can feel painted
numbers! / listened for the sound Of breath
ing, to know which to avoid, but could hear
none but my own. Suddenly, as often iu
such cases of extreme despair, the conviction
came strong upon me that it was the left
hand door. The thought, however, of mis-
take proved almost too strong for me;
pictured to myself the inevitable shrek, fol-
lowed by twenty others, the opening or lock-
ing of twenty doors, the awful figure of Miss
Spinney in dressing gown and nightcap
bearing down on me candle in hand, the
trembling crowd of teachers blue Eyes
among themD, servants and pupils behind.
myself the detected criminal with boots off
Nevertheless, clenched my teeth, and grasp
ing the handle tightly, turned it slowly and
quietly. There was no sound, and in l
stole. 1t must lie my room. But what is
thats A head on the pillow! Yes, by all that's
sacred, the wrong room!
How got out of that room l never knew.
A cold shudder came over me when | found
myself outside, and felt more inclined to re-
main standing in the passage until daylight
than to go through any such ordeal again.
But got tired of standing, and calner re-
Election induced me to try the next passage.
With renewal of the horrid sensation have
described, l ventured, and to my unspeak-
able relief found myself in the right room at
last. Hastily sprang into bed, but courted
sleep In vain, for my brain was in whirl
after the excitement Of the last half hour.
In the morning, with shattered nerves, l
came down to breakfast: unfortunately not
to be treasured at once. Who could be COM
Portable with twenty pairs of eyes to put one
out, whose owners thoroughly enjoy the dis
cOmfiture they effect. Blue Eyes did her best
for me, and saved me from feeling utterly
miserable. A quarter to II saw the whole
school defile two and two to church. did
INV accompany OuC Vi Cno
fresh air in an orchard at the back of the
house seemed more refreshing to my broken
constitution. The midday dinner was almost
as bad as the breakfast, the double line of
eyes all down the table were riveted on me,
and consequently mine on my platoon my
plate, save when they strayed to certain rosy
fingers not far of, and upwards to certain
blue eyes of which alone they did not seem
afraid. The afternoon brought welcome
change in my relations with the school: we
all adjourned to the orchard before men,
toned, and there, under the cool shade of an
apple tree, | examined, each with its charm
ing owner, some twenty albums How fond
they are Of albums, those delightful girls
of under II, | asked Blue Eyes to show
me an album, but she said that pupil teachers
never kept them, which told her was q fib.
Still, she sat down and talked instead of
showing me an album, and this was really
pleasanter.
On leaving such good friends next day |
was, as Is only natural, little depressed; but
my awful adventure of the wrong room still
haunted me, and l felt safe at any rate when
the gate of Algebra Lodge closed behind OH
cab.
There was much pleasure as well as pain i'm
my experience of this unknown world OF
girldom, short and slight though that expert,
ence was; but on looking back I have to
thank my stars that things were not worse.
that my departure was easy and dignified in.
stead of beng midnight scramble
SO ends my stroy, as told to my friends OF
the smoking room. | did not confide to them
what will now to you, my gentle reader.
Two lafo
for the holidays one of her teachers, whom
she described as being lawfully jolly" 1t
was Blue Eyes! One evening | told her the
whole story OF my adventure that night,
She laughed SO much at my misfortunes that
l grew angry and said she had no sympathy.
Then she poute,l then kissed her, and then
she promised TO marry me when ]
got mastership or work at the bar This is
why l am working SO hard now.-Roland
Graeme in Belgravia-
Next, perhaps, 10 the danger or becoming
chilled is the mishap of having the ears filled
with water. The common remedy for this is
to lean over sidewise, with the affected cal
downward, and hop theoretically upon
one foot-the laws of gravity will indi
cate which foot 1t is possible for q
very pretty and very graceful girl in
q wet bathing suit to perform this act
and still look pretty and graceful, but most
people prefer to seek the seclusion that the
bathing house affords before INDUCING il
acrobatics of this description. One of tbs
most distinguished aurists of this city, DR.
Samuel Sexton, SAYS that he has more case.
of internal injury TO the ear as the result Of
bathing than from almost any other cause
This is especially true of surf bathing. wher,
a breaking wave is very likely to drive water
iorcibly into the inner ear. II nothing bu
water enters. no harm is likely to follow; bu
surf almost al xaxS carries solids in s11Sron